Wallis Institute Annual Conference
19th Annual Conference
September 28th and 29th, 2012
held at the Schlegel Hall, Wm. E. Simon Graduate School of Business, UR
Program:
- Rebecca Morton, New York University, (with Jean-Robert Tyran), “Ethical versus Selfish Motivations and Turnout in Small and Large Electorates”
Discussant: Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Princeton University - Yosh Halberstam, University of Toronto, (with Pablo Montagnes), “Information Contagion, Presidential Coattails and Policy Skewness”
Discussant: Gabriel Lenz, UC Berkeley - Alastair Smith, New York University, (with Tom LaGatta and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita), “Prizes, Groups, and Pivotal Voting in a Poisson Voting Game” (updated version)
Discussant: Avidit Acharya, University of Rochester - Razvan Vlaicu, University of Maryland, (with Daniel Diermeier and Carlo Prato), “Procedural Choice in Majoritarian Organizations”
Discussant: Hulya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University - Steven Callander, Stanford University, (with Keith Krehbiel), “Gridlock and Delegation in a Changing World”
Discussant: Marco Battaglini, Princeton University - Katrin Tinn, Imperial College Business School, (with Navin Kartik and Francesco Squintani), “Information Revelation and (Anti-) Pandering in Elections”
Discussant: Scott Ashworth, University of Chicago - Ignacio Esponda, NYU Stern School of Business, (with Emanuel Vespa), “Hypothetical Thinking and Information Extraction: Pivotal Voting in the Laboratory”
Discussant: Thomas Palfrey, California Inst. Of Technology - Riccardo Puglisi, University of Pavia, (with James Snyder), “The Balanced U.S. Press”
Discussant: Brian Knight, Brown University